| At a big wooden table
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| In an office off Ann Street
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| It might as well be the ocean
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| For as far as you feel from me
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| But honey, baby, please
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| Shit I’m sorry
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| I didn’t mean to call you honey
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| I trace the grain with my finger
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| Keep my eyes low, stir my coffee
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| I shoulda let you go sooner
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| I know that I made this harder than it had to be
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| And I’m sorry
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| I’ve been the same asshole since you met me
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| You were the tail lights, like a lifeline
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| When the storm arrived
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| I followed you all night till the rain died
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| Like a long goodbye
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| I tune out while the lawyers
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| Start to rewrite all our history
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| The things that we built together
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| Get torn down brick by brick and dispersed out evenly
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| Burn the memories
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| Spread the ashes over Fort Greene
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| You were the tail lights, like a lifeline
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| When the storm arrived
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| I followed you all night till the rain died
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| Like a long goodbye
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| And then at sunrise in the daylight
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| I watched as you pull aside
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| I loved you like taillights, like a lifeline
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| Like a long goodbye
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| C-come on, just sign the papers
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| Don’t make me stay in the room
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| I don’t want this to be the way that I remember you
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| C-come on, just sign the papers
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| Don’t make me stay in the room
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| In a slant of sunlight I watch pools of ink dry blue
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| C-come on, just sign the papers
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| Don’t make me stay in the room
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| I can’t keep my hands steady but I press my pen down too
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| C-come on, just sign the papers
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| Don’t make me stay in the room
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| From the end of my name I swore I saw daylilies bloom
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| Come on, just sign the papers
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| Let’s find an end to the gloom
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| I’m sorry for every single thing I put you through |